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The Heywood Rehabilitation Center
69 Pearson Boulevard
Phone: (978) 630-6900
Overall Goal of Rehabilitation
To help people learn to make their bodies whole and
fully functioning, or to learn how to adapt their lives to new limitations.
Rehab Center Services:
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Speech & Language
Pathology
Audiology
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Physical Therapy
"To promote and restore optimal level of function
and health"
- Evaluation
- Plan of care
- Interventions
- Common Diagnoses
- Lower
back or neck injury
- Orthopedics
(fractures, sprains, ligament repairs, pre- & post surgery)
- Arthritis
- Open
wounds or burns
- Athletic
Injuries
- Neurological
cases
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Occupational Therapy
"To restore one's ability to perform daily tasks
such as eating, grooming, bathing and dressing, or such activities as
getting in and out of a car, using a wheelchair or shopping."
- Evaluation
- Activities of daily living retraining
- Cognitive perceptual retraining
- Low vision program
- Lymphedema program
- Hand therapy
- Elderly falls program
- Neurological movement retraining
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Speech
and Language Pathology
"To optimize communication and swallowing abilities
that may enhance one's quality of life and/or interpersonal effectiveness."
- Evaluation of communication
or swallowing disorders. These may be developmental in nature, or acquired
secondary to illness, neurological disorder or trauma, and may occur
in children or adults.
- Treatment
to address the dificulties identified, including disorders involving
verbal or written language, articulation, oral motor strength and functioning,
voice, pragmatics, fluency, and swallowing.
- Counseling
andeducation to improve the patient's understanding of the nature of
the disorder, as well as the reason and rationale for the treatment
protocol.
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Audiology
"To identify and measure hearing loss and help minimize
the impact of the loss on an individual's ability to function and succeed
in his/her everyday life."
- Newborn infant hearing screening
- Diagnostic audiometry, including speech and pure tone testing and tympanometry
- Pediatric Assessment including Visual Reinforcement and Conditioned Play Audiometry
- Patient counseling and education relative to amplification and hearing conservation
- Dispensing and repairing of hearing aids
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